Is there an Idea plugin that folds functions with backticks ````hello```` and makes them appear with...

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[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

Is there an Idea plugin that folds functions with backticks

`hello`

and makes them appear without the backticks? I saw some plugins that do that to prettify certain parts of languages (e.g. python's lambda being replaced by the greek letter lambda)

[elect]

oh, that'd be very nice, let me subscribed to this thread

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

I've made it! Currently waiting on approval from Jetbrains Marketplace

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

Guess which are folded and which aren't! I turned off the color for folded text in the settings btw, which helps a lot

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

A few ideas and TODOs for the plugin:
• Take in a custom mapping of function names/fqns to pretty names and use those as fallbacks (should be trivial to implement)
• Add an option to hide the . in property access to pretty names (trivial)
• Add an option to hide the parenthesis for prefix-like pretty functions (medium. Need to make it have similar semantics to existing prefix operators e.g. !)
• Add the option to provide a custom format string for the function's arguments (medium. Varargs are difficult. Need to decide whether to exclude lambdas or not and when?)
• Implement custom infix left/right operators with custom precedence (very hard. Note that this, like the rest, are in folding only, so it might be strange to type out).
• Add option to fold single expression if-else to ternary operator

[Adam S]

Great! Looking forward to it. Is it on GitHub?

[elect]

Kudos!
I'm curious on the whole predicates, could you expand the screenshot or past the whole code in here?

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

@Adam S It is on Github here. It will take a couple days for it to be approved on the Jetbrains marketplace, but once it is, it'll be just an install away

@elect Here's a simplified example:

infix fun Boolean.`?`(value: Any): Any = TODO()
infix fun Boolean.`&`(other: Boolean): Boolean = TODO()

@Pretty(":")
infix fun Any.orElse(other: Any): Any = TODO()

@Pretty("<<")
infix fun Any.shiftLeft(other: Any): Any = TODO()

@Pretty(">>")
infix fun Any.shiftRight(other: Any): Any = TODO()

@Pretty("if")
fun magicIf(condition: Any, block: () -> Unit): Any = TODO()

Now when I write:

true `?` 1 orElse 2
true `&` false
1 shiftLeft 2 shiftRight 3
magicIf(true) {
  println("Hello")
}

It displays as the attached image (as long as you turn off the color for folded text in settings)

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

Looks like it works with emoji too 👀

[elect]

does the completion work just fine? Do you have to type the backticks first?

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

That's the catch yes. You have to type the backticks. I'll look into if there's a way to add those to completion.
However, I think using @Pretty to change how a function is displayed might be a lot nicer than changing its name to a backticked one.